A Corpus-based Study of the Lexis of Business English and Business English Materials

A thesis submitted to the University of Manchester for the degree of PhD in the Faculty of Education.

2000

Copyright Michael Nelson 2000

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Contents

Chapter 1 A summary of the research

Chapter 2 Statement of the problem and overview

Chapter 3 A review of the literature of Business English

Chapter 4   Lexis: From Collocation to Colligation

Chapter 5 The methodological background

Chapter 6 Creating the corpora

Chapter 7 Hypothesis, research questions and Method

Chapter 8 Overview of the results

Chapter 9 Part One: Results and Discussion

Chapter 9 Part Two: Results and Discussion

Chapter 10 Summary of Conclusions and Bibliography